Who’s who in Israel’s new patchwork coalition government

Israel’s new government is a hodgepodge of political parties that came together to unseat Netanyahu.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year tenure as Israeli prime minister came to an end as the country’s parliament on Sunday approved a new coalition government led by right-wing nationalist leader Naftali Bennett. The new government, a hodgepodge of political parties, has little in common other than a desire to unseat now-former Prime Minister Netanyahu. The coalition spans from the far-left to the far-right and includes for the first time a small party that represents Palestinian citizens of Israel, who account for 21 percent of the country’s population.